{"id":117255,"date":"2021-11-13T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T05:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/?p=117255"},"modified":"2021-11-13T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T05:32:45","slug":"health-sector-grant-of-rs-8453-92-crore-released-to-local-bodies-of-19-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/health-sector-grant-of-rs-8453-92-crore-released-to-local-bodies-of-19-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Sector Grant of Rs.8,453.92 crore released to Local Bodies of 19 States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-pa\">\u0a2e\u0a3e\u0a2b\u0a3c \u0a15\u0a30\u0a28\u0a3e, \u0a07\u0a39 \u0a16\u0a2c\u0a30 \u0a24\u0a41\u0a39\u0a3e\u0a21\u0a40 \u0a2c\u0a47\u0a28\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a2d\u0a3e\u0a38\u0a3c\u0a3e \u0a35\u0a3f\u0a71\u0a1a \u0a09\u0a2a\u0a32\u0a2c\u0a27 \u0a28\u0a39\u0a40\u0a02 \u0a39\u0a48\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/en\/\">\u0a15\u0a3f\u0a30\u0a2a\u0a3e \u0a15\u0a30\u0a15\u0a47 \u0a07\u0a71\u0a25\u0a47 \u0a26\u0a47\u0a16\u0a4b\u0964<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Grants meant to strengthen health systems and plugcritical gaps in the health care system at the primary health care level<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Delhi : 13 NOV 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance has released an amount of Rs.8,453.92 crore as health sector grant for rural and urban local bodies of 19 States.\u00a0 The grants have been released as per the recommendations of the Fifteenth Finance Commission.\u00a0 State-wise amount of grant released is enclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The Fifteenth Finance Commission (FC-XV) in its Report for the period from 2021-22 to 2025-26 has recommended a total grant of Rs.4,27,911 crore to local governments. The grants recommended by the Commission inter-alia\u00a0 include health grants of Rs.70,051 crore.\u00a0 Out of this amount, Rs.43,928 crore have been recommended for Rural Local Bodies and Rs.26,123 crore for Urban Local Bodies.<\/p>\n<p>These <strong>grants are meantto strengthen health systems and plug the critical gaps in the health care system at the primary health care level.<\/strong>\u00a0 The Commission has also identified interventions that will directly lead to strengthening the primary health infrastructure and facilities in both rural and urban areas and has earmarked grants for each intervention.<strong>These interventions are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Support for diagnostic infrastructure to the primary healthcare facilities in rural areas \u2013 Rs.16,377 crore<\/li>\n<li>Block level public health units in rural areas \u2013 Rs.5,279 crore<\/li>\n<li>Construction of buildings of building-less Sub centres, PHCs, CHCs in rural areas \u2013 Rs.7,167 crore<\/li>\n<li>Conversion of rural PHCs and sub centres into health and wellness centre \u2013 Rs.15,105 crore<\/li>\n<li>Support for diagnostic infrastructure to the primary healthcare facilities in urban areas \u2013 Rs.2,095 crore<\/li>\n<li>Urban health and wellness centres (HWCs) \u2013 Rs.24,028 crore<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Health grants recommended to be released in the financial year 2021-22 is Rs.13,192 crore.\u00a0 This includes Rs.8,273 crore for Rural and Rs.4,919 crore for Urban Local Bodies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Rural and urban local bodies can play a key role in the delivery of primary health care services especially at the \u2018cutting edge\u2019 level and help in achieving the objective of Universal Health Care.\u00a0 Strengthening the local governments in terms of resources, health infrastructure and capacity building can enable them to play a catalytic role in epidemics and pandemics too.<\/p>\n<p>Involving Panchayati Raj institutions and Urban Local Government as supervising agencies in these primary health care institutions would strengthen the overall primary health care system and involvement of local governments would also make the health system accountable to the people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health grants to the remaining 9 States will be released after their proposals are received from the respective States through the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Health Sector Grant released for Local Bodies<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 1404px;\" width=\"376\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>S.No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>State<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Amount of Grant released<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Rs. In crore)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1.<\/td>\n<td>Andhra Pradesh<\/td>\n<td>488.1527<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2.<\/td>\n<td>Arunachal Pradesh<\/td>\n<td>46.944<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.<\/td>\n<td>Assam<\/td>\n<td>272.2509<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4.<\/td>\n<td>Bihar<\/td>\n<td>1116.3054<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5.<\/td>\n<td>Chhattisgarh<\/td>\n<td>338.7944<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6.<\/td>\n<td>Himachal Pradesh<\/td>\n<td>98.0099<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7.<\/td>\n<td>JKharkhand<\/td>\n<td>444.3983<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8.<\/td>\n<td>Karnataka<\/td>\n<td>551.53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9.<\/td>\n<td>Madhya Pradesh<\/td>\n<td>922.7992<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10.<\/td>\n<td>Maharashtra<\/td>\n<td>778.0069<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11.<\/td>\n<td>Manipur<\/td>\n<td>42.8771<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12.<\/td>\n<td>Mizoram<\/td>\n<td>31.19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13.<\/td>\n<td>Odisha<\/td>\n<td>461.7673<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14.<\/td>\n<td>Punjab<\/td>\n<td>399.6558<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15.<\/td>\n<td>Rajasthan<\/td>\n<td>656.171<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16.<\/td>\n<td>Sikkim<\/td>\n<td>20.978<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17.<\/td>\n<td>Tamil Nadu<\/td>\n<td>805.928<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18.<\/td>\n<td>Uttarakhand<\/td>\n<td>150.0965<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19.<\/td>\n<td>West Bengal<\/td>\n<td>828.0694<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>8453.9248<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/pm-thanks-people-padma-awardee-shri-biren-kumar-basak-for-his-gift\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">READ PM thanks People Padma Awardee Shri Biren Kumar Basak for his gift<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0a2e\u0a3e\u0a2b\u0a3c \u0a15\u0a30\u0a28\u0a3e, \u0a07\u0a39 \u0a16\u0a2c\u0a30 \u0a24\u0a41\u0a39\u0a3e\u0a21\u0a40 \u0a2c\u0a47\u0a28\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a2d\u0a3e\u0a38\u0a3c\u0a3e \u0a35\u0a3f\u0a71\u0a1a \u0a09\u0a2a\u0a32\u0a2c\u0a27 \u0a28\u0a39\u0a40\u0a02 \u0a39\u0a48\u0964 \u0a15\u0a3f\u0a30\u0a2a\u0a3e \u0a15\u0a30\u0a15\u0a47 \u0a07\u0a71\u0a25\u0a47 \u0a26\u0a47\u0a16\u0a4b\u0964Grants meant to strengthen health systems and plugcritical gaps in the health care system at the primary health care level Delhi : 13 NOV 2021 The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance has released an amount of Rs.8,453.92 crore as health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":58988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,122],"tags":[30634,56731],"class_list":["post-117255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","category-news","tag-ministry-of-finance","tag-news-makhani"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}